wind-swept

[wind-swept]

adjective

1. open or exposed to the wind.

   a wind-swept beach.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wind-swept¹

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

Fishburn had three birdies and an eagle on the first five holes at wind-swept TPC Louisiana, where the wind gusted to 25 mph.

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The military academy that has become the West Point for the religious right is built atop a wind-swept hill in the West Bank settlement of Eli.

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Surprisingly, the authors discovered that the wind-swept sand deposits of the Late Cretaceous Gobi Desert's extraordinarily diverse and well-preserved fossil lizard record shapes our understanding of their evolutionary history more than any other site on the planet.

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The battle has spawned a good bit of anxiety in Trona, a withering town of 1,500 residents in a wind-swept bowl hugged by three rugged mountain ranges that relies on groundwater supplied by Searles Valley Minerals.

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The town’s economy has long relied on a modest, steady flow of visitors drawn to its red-rock canyons, coursing San Juan River, and wind-swept solitude.

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